Rare Book School

Rare Book School

Since 1972, the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School have offered more than 600 public lectures on a wide variety of bibliographical topics.

Episodes

July 17, 2025 58 mins
Mark McConnell, "Publishing in the Renaissance: Christophe Plantin's Business Strategy" by Rare Book School Lectures
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Janine Barchas, "Jane Austen on the Cheap" by Rare Book School Lectures
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Mindell Dubansky, "A Parallel History of Books and Blooks" by Rare Book School Lectures
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Richard B. Sher, “New Light on the Early Publication History of Boswell's Life of Johnson," Karmiole Lecture, 10 July 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Ashley Cataldo, “Collecting Daily Life in Early American Manuscripts," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 31 July 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Li Wei Yang, “Yongle Dadian: An Emperors' Encyclopedia,” Malkin Lecture, 29 July 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Aaron Pratt, “Buying a Book in Early Modern England,” 22 July 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures
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G. Scott Clemons, "De Motu Librorum: On the Movement of Books," Rendell Lecture, 8 July 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Deborah Parker, "A Librarian Like No Other: Belle da Costa Greene and Self-Invention," 12 June 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Stephen Karian, "Scholarly Editing and the Challenges of Attribution," 10 June 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures
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LeRonn Brooks, "Archive of the People: The Johnson Publishing Company, 3 June 2024 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Kailani Polzak, "Pacific Encounters in Print," The Kress Foundation Lecture, 31 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Craig Welsh, "The Typesetting & Designs of the Declaration of Independence Broadsides," 26 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Christy S. Coleman, "A Nexus of Learning—Museums and the Importance of Public History," 24 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Jeffrey Makala, "Lives (& Afterlives) of Stereotype Plates," Karmiole Lecture, 12 July 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Walter O. Evans, "Why Collect?" The 2023 Kenneth W. Rendell Lecture, 14 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Barbara E. Mundy, "Books in the Contact Zone," Malkin Lecture, 12 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Leah Price, "Reader=Inessential Worker: Book History After Lockdown," 7 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
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S. Max Edelson, "The Surveyor's Eye," NEH-SHARP Lecture, 5 June 2023 by Rare Book School Lectures
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Mary Catherine Kinniburgh is the co-director of Granary Books, an independent publisher and archives/rare book dealer. As a scholar of postwar American poetry and an archives broker, her activities occur at the intersection of research and praxis, and her writing often focuses on the poetics of archival work. In particular, her research explores making sense of high volume in literary collections. In this talk, Kinniburgh discus...
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